Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incapable of being disguised.

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  • adjective Impossible to disguise.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ disguisable

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Examples

  • If you're hunting a criminal and you have one obvious, undisguisable identifier that narrows that person down to 2-5% of the population, it is downright irresponsible and reckless to NOT mention that fact.

    RNC Mailer Hits Obama: "It Used To Be Easy To Recognize Patriotism" 2009

  • All that concentrated power, the implosive life of the board, black and white, the autocratic beauty of winning, what a chestful of undisguisable pride—he defeated men, boys, the old and wise, the vigorous and quick, the bohemian cafe poets, friendly and smelly.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • All that concentrated power, the implosive life of the board, black and white, the autocratic beauty of winning, what a chestful of undisguisable pride—he defeated men, boys, the old and wise, the vigorous and quick, the bohemian cafe poets, friendly and smelly.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • All that concentrated power, the implosive life of the board, black and white, the autocratic beauty of winning, what a chestful of undisguisable pride—he defeated men, boys, the old and wise, the vigorous and quick, the bohemian cafe poets, friendly and smelly.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The fair Volumnia, being one of those sprightly girls who cannot long continue silent without imminent peril of seizure by the dragon Boredom, soon indicates the approach of that monster with a series of undisguisable yawns.

    Bleak House 2007

  • Past the undisguisable freckles, face powder and spikey black lashes.

    etherea Diary Entry etherea 2003

  • You possess undisguisable features, such that to the eye of a trained physician you would not for one minute pass muster as a man.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • You possess undisguisable features, such that to the eye of a trained physician you would not for one minute pass muster as a man.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

  • It is in the close, packed atmosphere of parishes and monasteries that the comedy of Powers grows and flourishes: an odd, rare bloom: satiric, harsh, and yet not condemning, falling with an undisguisable relish upon the clergy's faults yet based upon a tough and weary faith in what these clergymen so ineptly represent.

    The Priestly Comedy of J. F. Powers Gordon, Mary 1982

  • He answered in a smug satisfaction tinged with undisguisable malice.

    Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

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